it works out to 2200 bullets across omaha beach every. second, that's almost more bullets in the air than. air. the fire was so intense some the embarked troops balked at leaving the landing craft at, all as one landing craft dropped its rank ramp machine gun bullets killed the first four men right there in the front rank, getting ready to leave just outright killed them and smacked, clinging, clanging off the ramp on the wall and kicking up water and surf in front the boat and the soldiers just froze and navy coxswain at the stern stood and called out plaintively. come on, fellas get out. i got to go get another load. and they did. the germans had artillery, of course, and it was pretty blowing up the landing boats and the larger lct is kind of an alphabet soup of amphibious craft involved or lct landing craft tank as opposed to the lsd landing ship tank and the l i's landing ship infant tree. and as they did, if they were successful on deposit ing their men and equipment ashore, they were blown up right there along the beach. and what t

so at most it omaha omaha beach was going to be called omaha beach. they had a couple battalions. that's when it was selected a year later when ramos put in charge of defenses. all those forces, a lot of the forces we just talked about have been moved forward. rommel, that hitler did give rommel everything that he asked for, but he did give them some of those things. and there's a consequence of that instead of, fighting the seventh 16th infantry division. all right. you see the 3/52 here down at saint level. well if yo a look at this bottom map, it will moved forward. we didn't know that. and we find it out 24 hours, the first infantry division landed omaha beach. well, we'll learn 24 hours ahead of time, right? they won't be the seventh 16th infantry division, the 3/52 that has been moved for a good quality full strength infantry division. well, we'll be what we end up running. right. so so part of the thing here then was also an intelligence problem in terms of intelligence value. when you think about the outcome of thing, part of it also is ramos for the conduct of the defense

we would have lost omaha beach. not just omaha beach. you lost the land in other words, if hitler had listened to his his generals and given what he wanted to put in that defense there, europe might look pretty different today if that had been the case. but questions. am doing well. that's questions. why i must have done a great job, huh? no, everybody get okay. all right. we'll call it a day and we'll pick this up again. all right. here to mark that day in history when the allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent, to liberty for four long years. much of europe had been under a terrible shadow. free nations had fallen. -- cried out in the camps. millions

as famously omaha beach. but in this case, of course, you're going to have, you know, just just sort of a lot of stunned german defenders, but also people of different ethnic backgrounds. okay. so i want to mention this, norman invasion is an incredible international event we've already sense that on the allied side. but just in general, the german army is not just it's all sorts of eastern european ers who are serving in the german armed forces, mainly as career people. here's your choice. slave labor or service in the german army is roster filler because the germans are hurting for manpower. so there's guys from georgia, not the state, but the country who are defending utah beach. there's ukrainians, there's russians and then of course, there's germans, too. it's it's a kind of a mixture. okay. so some of these guys, when they get bombed accurately, they're not too enthusiastic about staying and fighting. some of them really kind of traumatized in their bunkers and pillbox cases. it's just a mixture. okay.

some parts of omaha beach reasonably safe. swirling with these deadly encounters, and taylor sort of making a difference in this regard. the other way that you are able to even survive here is that you have u.s. navy destroyers that are going to come in so close that they may run aground, and they are giving you close and vital fire support that allows taylor to succeed. you can see what a team effort this whole thing truly is. omaha beach is by no means safe in the course of the day, but i would say about m day, the americans are really decisively winning the battle. by nightfall, this is your situation. you don't really have a continuous front line. you've got perimeters. you have carved out a beachhead, and you land 35,000 troops, and you've got about 2500 casualties. d-day casualties overall for the allies, 10,000. this is the latest scholarship of the national d-day memorial folks in bedford. they have done a project to figure out every allied k.i.a. on d-day. incredible work. we know of 4420 six deaths on d-day, 2500 and

during those first hours on bloody omaha nothing seemed to go right. landing craft were ripped apart by mines and shells, tanksent to protect them had sunk, drowning their crews; enemy fire raked the invaders as they stepped into chest-high water and waded past the floating bodies of their comrades. and as the stunned survivors of the first wave huddled behind the seawall, it seemed the invasion might fail. hitler and his followers had bet on it. they were sure the allied soldiers were soft, weakened by liberty and leisure, by the mingling of races and religion. totalitarian youth had more discipline and zeal. although many of the american troops found themselves without officers on unfamiliar ground next to soldiers they didn't know, one by one they got up. they inched forward and together, in groups of threes and fives and tens, the sons of democracy improvised and mounted their own attacks. at that exact moment, on these beaches, the forces of freedom turned the tide of the 20th century. these soldiers knew that staying put meant certain death. but

and here at omaha.oops finally made it to the seawall and used it as shelter, where a general said, rangers, lead the way. by the end of that longest day, this beach had been sought, lost , re-fought, won. a piece of europe liberated and free. hitler's wall was breached. within a week, the world's bloodiest beach had become the busiest port. within a month one million allied troops thundered through normandy and into europe. as our army marched one pilot said it looked like the very crust of the earth had shaken loose. lit up for the first time in years. punctuated by shouts of -- [speaking french]. [applause] of course, even as we gather here at normandy, we remember that freedom's victory was also made possible by so many others who wore america's uniform. two years before he commanded armies, eisenhower's troops sliced through north africa. three times before d-day, our gis stormed the beaches at sicily, salerno, anzio. divisions like the fighting 36th brawled their way through italy, fighting throug

in the first wave of the landing here at omaha, one unit suffered 91% casualties. as general omar bradley later wrote, six hours after the landings, we held only 10 yards of beach. a british commando unit had half taking the town of st. aubin. a d-day veteran remembers, the only thing that made me feel good was to look around and try to find somebody who looked more scared than i felt. that man was hard to find. at all the beaches and landing grounds of d-day, men saw some images they would spend a lifetime preferring to forget. one soldier carries the memory of three paratroopers dead and hanging from telephone poles like a horrible crucifixion scene. all who fought saw images of pain and death, raw and relentless.e men of d-day also d scenes they would proudly and faithfully recount, scenes of daring and self-giving that went beyond anything the army or the country could ask. they remember men like technician 5th grade john pinder, jr., whose job was to deliver vital radio equipment to the beach. he was gravely wounded before he hit shore, and he kept going. he d

it works out to 2,200 bullets across omaha beach every second.is almost more bullets in the air than air. the fire was so intense, see the -- so intense, some of the embarked crew did not leave the landing craft at all. machine good bullets killed the first four -- gun bullets killed the first four men and smacked clinging off the wall, kicking up water and serve. the soldiers just froze. and the navy cox minette this ter -- on the stern said, out, i have to go get another load! and they did. the germans had artillery too, of course, and it was pretty busy, blowing up the landing boats and the larger lct's. landing craft tank, as opposed to the lst, landing ship tank, and lsi's, landing ship infantry. and as they did, even if they were successful in depositing their men and equipment ashore, they were blown up right there along the beach. what that meant was that the beachfront itself was crowded with smashed up and burning ships and vehicles. it looked like a maritime junkyard. and that meant the landing craft in the second wave and the third wa

omaha and utah proudly scenes from america's heartland. part of the biggest gamble of the war, the greatest crusade. yes, the longest day. during those first hours on bloody omaha, nothing seemed to go right. landing craft were ripped apart by mines and shells. tanks sent to protect them had sunk. drowning their crews. enemy fire raked the invaders as they stepped into chest high water and waded past the floating bodies of their comrades. and as the stunned survivors of the first wave huddled behind a seawall, it seemed the invasion might fail. hitler and his followers had bet on it. they were sure the allied soldiers were soft. weakened by liberty and leisure. by the mingling of races and religions. they were sure their totalitarian and use had more discipline and zeal. but then something happened. although many of the american troops found themselves without officers on unfamiliar ground, next to soldiers, they didn't know one by one. they got up. they inch forward and together in groups of threes and fives and tens. the sons of democrac

inhe landing here at omaha. one unit suffered at 91% casualties.as general omar bradley later wrote, 6 hours after the landings, we held only ten yards of beach. a british commando unit had half its men killed or wounded while taking the town of st oba. d-day. veteran remembers. the only thing that made me feel good was to look around and try to find somebody who looked more scared than i felt. that hard to find. grounds of d-day. men saw some images they would spend a lifetime, preferring to ]$forget. one soldier carries a memory of three patroopers dead and hanging from telephone poles like a horrible, crucified fish and seen all he fights, all images of pain and death, raw and relentless. the men of the day also witnessed scenes they would proudly and faithfully recount. scenes of daring and self-giving that went beyond anything the army or the country could ask. they remember a n like technician fifth grade john pender jr, whose job was to deliver vital radio equipment to the beach. he was gravely wounded before he hit going. he delivered the r

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before the landing in omaha, sergeant earl parker of bedford, virginia. proudly passed around a picture of danny, the newborn daughter. he had never held. he told the fellows, if i could see this daughter of mine, i wouldn't mind dying. sergeant parker's remembered here at the garden of the missing, and he is remembered back home by a woman in her sixties who proudly shows a picture of her handsome, smiling, young dad. all who are buried and named in this place are held in the loving memory of america. we pray in the peace of the cemetery that they have reached the far shore of god's mercy. and we still look with pride on the men of d-day, on those who served and went on. it is a strange turn of history that called on young men from the prairie towns and city streets of america to cross an ocean and throw back the marching mechanized evils of fascism. and those young men did it. you did it. that difficult. summers reached then past and 60 years of living. now has come a time of reflection with thoughts of another horizon and the hope of reunion with the b

this beach, codenamed omaha, was defended by the nazis with monstrous firepower, thousands and thousandsf mines and spikes driven into the sand, so deeply. it was here that tens of thousands of the americans came. the gis who boarded the landing craft that morning knew that they carried on their shoulders not just the pack of a soldier, but the fate of the world. colonel george taylor, whose 16th infantry regiment would join in the first wave, was asked, what would happen if the germans stopped right then and there, cold on the beach, just stopped them? what would happen? this great american replied, "why, the 18th infantry is coming in right behind us. the 26th infantry will come on too. then there is the 2nd infantry division already afloat. and the 9th division. and the 2nd armored. and the 3rd armored. and all the rest. maybe the 16th won't make it, but someone will." one of those men in taylor's 16th regiment was army medic ray lambert. ray was only 23, but he had already earned three purple hearts and two silver stars fighting in north africa and sicily, where he and his brother bi

this beach, codenamed omaha, was defended by the nazis with monstrous firepower.thousands and thousands of mines and spy striven into the sand so deeply. it was here that tens, thousands of the americans came. the guys who boarded the landing that morning knew that they carried on their shoulders, not just the pack of a soldier, but the fate of the world. colonel george taylor, whose 16th infantry regiment would join in the first wave, was asked what would happen if the germans stopped. right then in their cold and the beach just stopped them. what would happen? this great american replied. why? the 18th infantry has coming in right behind us. the 2/6 infantry will come on to. then there is the second infantry division already afloat, and the ninth division. and the second armored. and all the maybe thesk 16th w't make it, but someone will. one of those men in taylor's 16th regiment was army medic ray lambert. ray was only 23, but he had already earned three purple hearts and two silver stars fighting in north africa and sicily, where he and his brother bill no lo

kevin in omaha, nebraska. caller: i'm just calling about my father, he was in the air force and he was stationed at the azores. he refueled the planes and told me they would come in one right after another and get refueled and go on to europe. that's my comment and i want to thank all the members of the service who serviced our country and thank you very much. i'm making it short and sweet have a good day. host: to linda in ohio, you are next. caller: i just wanted to call for my father as well. he was in the 751st tank battalion. he was the commander of that tank unit. i just want to call to say thank you to all of them. they sacrificed a lot. host: where did they fight during the war? caller: they were in germany. what stories do you remember? caller: he did not say a lot about what went on. i think it was horrendous for them and he really did not talk a lot about it. just want to call and say thank you to all of them. >> what do you think you would be thinking about today on the 80th anniversary of d-day? c

there. 55,000 americans were heading for utah beach and omaha beach. bloody omaha.y had crossed the ocean to save a continent which was not theirs. but because they shared in the call of europe, the united kingdom was there. with 73,000 soldiers of all colors. they were heading towards gold beach and sword beach. and with them, the piper, scotland. who had his bagpipes and played to galvanize the attack. canada was there. 21,000 men. all of them volunteers ready to attack on juno beach. minute by minute, they could see the sand on the horizon getting closer. for some, it was the land of their ancestors who had left france centuries before for arcadia and quebec. there were french troops there, too. 177 men, they were ready to land on the beach at sword beach. they would be the first because the british commander had let them be the first to set foot on french soil. i think of them today. i think of leon and the others. [applause] pres. macron: the sky was filled with squadrons of american pilots, british pilots, belgians, or regions, polls, the dutch, south africans

june 16, 1944, lst landed on omaha beach delivering tanks, troops, and supplies.he ship, they landed in portsmouth and resumed resupply missions. they earned a degree in chemical engineering had a long career at the atomic energy commission. [applause] retired army colonel frank cohen was joined -- was born in germany, 19 25, escaping to the u.s. with his parents at the age of 13. he served in the battle of the bulge, in the rhineland central europe and pains meeting russians at the alder river. he later served as a guard for nazi prisoners tried in the second nuremberg trial. he has served in the military for 35 years including tours in korea and vietnam that was before retiring from his role as chief of staff of the military district in washington. [applause] with us in spirit are all of our world war ii veterans, including our dear friend the late hermann site check, who landed -- syche k, who landed on d-day. we are grateful to have his family with us, along with all of our veterans. please, remain seated while we prepare for the visual wreathlaying at the fre

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we can to what happened when the boys from america reached omaha beach. by daybreak.blood soaked the water. bombs broke the sky. thousands of paratroopers had dropped into the wrong landing sites. thousands of rounds, bit into flesh and sand. entire companies where the men fell in minutes. house, beach had earned its name. by 8:30 a.m. general omar bradley expected our troops to be a mile inland. the landings, he wrote, we held only ten yards of beach. in this age of instant commentary, the invasion would have swiftly and roundly officer. a debacle. but such a race to judgment would not have taken into account the courage of free men. success may not come with rushing speed. president roosevelt would say that night, but we shall return again and again. and paratroopers fought through the countryside to find one another. rangers pulled themselves over those cliffs to silence nazi guns to the west. americans took utah beach with relative ease to the east. the coast. fueled by the fury of five years of bombs over london and a solemn vow to fight them on the beaches. the

beach, bloody omaha, a bloodbath. everything goes wrong, bright from the start. the ships fire has not destroyed the bunk because the strong current pushes the landing craft directly in front of the german positions. who in the rising tonic dam tvs tanks are launched to fall out to sea. most of them sink before they can reach the beach. the g i is have to attack intact phone to if occasions was designed to weapons and without tank support the soldier route victory at kosky rights. after we had mowed down the fast to storm waves, we imagined ourselves going on leave with the i am cross 1st class. on the beach corpses upon corpses, the screams of the wounded burning vehicles. the situation seems so critical, the general omar bradley, who combines the us troops, is thinking of evacuating omaha, even if that would jeopardize the entire operation. then i like destroyers approach the coast, an open direct file on the bunkers. the germans fight stopping me, but they run out of ammunition. they surrender in the face of the en

my c 47 landed on omaha beach.gh a number of planes were shot down that particular danger was not very worrisome at the time. our real concern was to get those wounded boys on the plane into the hospital. we came in low, landed on perforated steel planking that had been placed on the sand. the engines were revving as letters were pushed through the door and we were back in the air before several of the litters were even properly hung up. the boys i brought back to england were injured horribly. but not one of them on any of my flights died en route. not one of them. other nurses were not so fortunate. [applause] >> president franklin delano's roosevelt's prayer for d-day 6 june 1944. almighty god, our son and his bride of our nation, this day hase mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. lead them straight and true, arms, stillness to their heart, steadfastness in their faith. these men are trod from the ways of feet. they fight